Between 1917 and 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed ... to round the Bolsheviks up: By then, they had attempted a coup and failed. The problem was that people underestimated Lenin & Co.

The Bolshevik Party in crisis was nothing but ... there would have been no Soviet Union. Lenin made his unbelievable stand when he trotted into the Finland Station in his bowler hat and found ...

While Lenin and Trotsky had hoped that the NEP would be a relatively short-term policy—to buy time for the Soviet Union until a renewed ... were reflected in the Bolshevik Party and undermined ...

The real coup was at the Soviet Congress, when the wealth of the Soviets became a Bolshevik triumph; a radical collective that had been a historic minority. Lenin takes control and begins to draw ...

VLADIMIR PUTIN blamed Lenin — the founder of the Soviet Union — on Thursday night for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mr Putin told a meeting of the presidential council for science and education ...